UCLA Computer Science Department

Faculty
This directory includes regular CS Department faculty, adjunct faculty and faculty with joint appointments. All email addresses are at cs.ucla.edu, unless indicated otherwise. Click on faculty names to see their personal web pages.

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	Algirdas Avizienis, Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (1960) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
	IEEE Fellow; IEEE CS Technical Achievement Award
	Research: computer system architecture and design; fault-tolerant computing; digital arithmetic

	email: aviz \| office: BH 4731F \| tel: 310-825-3028 \| fax: 310-825-2273

	Rajive Bagrodia, Emeritus Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (1987) University of Texas, Austin
	Research: wireless networks; mobile computing and communications; network simulation and analysis; parallel and distributed computing

	email: rajive \| office: BH 3531G \| tel: 310-825-0956 \| fax: 310-794-5056

	Bertram Bussell, Emeritus Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (1962) UCLA
	Research: electric circuit theory; heat transfer; computer system architecture; computer graphics


	email: bussell \| office: BH 4731A \| tel: 310-397-2279 \| fax: 310-825-2273

	Alfonso F. Cardenas, Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (1969) UCLA
	Research: database management; distributed heterogeneous and multimedia systems; information systems; medical informatics; legal and IP issues; software engineering

	email: cardenas \| office: BH 3732E \| tel: 310-825-7550 \| fax: 310-825-7578

	Jack Carlyle, Emeritus Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (1961) University of California, Berkeley
	Research: communication; computation theory and practice; algorithms and complexity; discrete system theory; developmental and probabilistic systems

	email: jwc \| office: BH 3731G \| tel: 310-825-8807 \| fax: 310-825-7578

	Junghoo (John) Cho, Associate Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (2002) Stanford University
	Research: internet search engines; database systems; information management systems; digital libraries; large-scale internet data management

	email: cho \| office: BH 3532E \| tel: 310-893-0986 \| fax: 310-794-5056

	Wesley Chu, Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (1966) Stanford University
	IEEE Fellow, IEEE Life Fellow; IEEE CS Technical Achievement Award
	Research: distributed processing and distributed database systems; intelligent information systems

	email: wwc \| office: BH 3731H \| tel: 310-825-2047 \| fax: 310-825-7578

	Jason (Jingsheng) Cong, Chancellor's Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (1990) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
	IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow
	Research: computer-aided design of VLSI circuits; fault-tolerant designs of VLSI systems; design and analysis of algorithms

	email: cong \| office: BH 4731J \| tel: 310-206-2775 \| fax: 310-825-2273

	Adnan Darwiche, Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (1993) Stanford University
	AAAI Fellow
	Research: probabilistic and logical reasoning and its applications, including diagnosis, planning, and system design and analysis
	email: darwiche \| office: BH 4532D \| tel: 310-206-5201 \| fax: 310-794-5057

	Joseph Distefano III, Distinguished Prof of Computer Sci, Medicine & Biomed Engrg
	PhD (1966) UCLA
	Research: biocybernetics, computational systems biology and physiology; biomedical systems modeling and control; integrative cancer biology; optimal drug therapy; intelligent software for automated biomodeling

	email: joed \| office: BH 4711 \| tel: 310-825-7482 \| fax: 310-825-2273

	Michael G. Dyer, Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (1982) Yale University
	Research: processing and acquisition of natural language through symbolic, connectionist and genetic algorithm techniques

	email: dyer \| office: BH 4532F \| tel: 310-206-6674 \| fax: 310-794-5057

	Paul Eggert, Lecturer of Computer Science
	PhD (1980) UCLA
	Research: software design and engineering; programming language design and implementation; software internationalization

	email: eggert \| office: BH 4532J \| tel: 310-267-2254 \| fax: 310-794-5057

	Milos D. Ercegovac, Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (1975) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
	IEEE Fellow, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts Member
	Research: computer arithmetic and hardware-oriented algorithms; design of digital and reconfigurable systems

	email: milos \| office: BH 4731H \| tel: 310-825-5414 \| fax: 310-825-2273

	Eleazar Eskin, Associate Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (2002) Columbia University
	Research: bioinformatics; computational biology; machine learning


	email: eeskin \| office: MS 2915 \| tel: 310-825-3886 \| fax: 310-825-2273

	Deborah Estrin, Professor of Computer Science, Jon Postel Chair in Computer Networks
	PhD (1985) MIT
	NAE Member; AAAS Fellow, ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow
	Research: embedded networked sensing; wireless sensing applications; environmental monitoring; network protocols

	email: destrin \| office: BH 3531H \| tel: 310-206-3923 \| fax: 310-206-3053

	Gerald Estrin, Emeritus Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (1951) University of Wisconsin
	IEEE Fellow
	Research: computer systems architecture; methodology and supporting tools for design of concurrent systems; automating design teamwork; restructurable architectures
	email: estrin \| office: BH 4731C \| tel: 310-825-2786 \| fax: 310-825-7578

	Thelma Estrin, Emeritus Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (1951) University of Wisconsin
	AAAS Fellow, IEEE Fellow, AIMBE Fellow
	Research: biomedical engineering; application of technology and computers to health care; computer methods in neuroscience; engineering education
	email: testrin \| office: BH 4731C \| tel: 310-825-2786 \| fax: 310-825-7578

	Petros Faloutsos, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (2002) University of Toronto
	Research: computer graphics; physics-based animation; robotics; biomechanics


	email: pfal \| office: BH 4531F \| tel: 310-825-2393 \| fax: 310-794-5057

	Eliezer Gafni, Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (1982) MIT
	Research: distributed algorithms; mathematical programming with application to data networks; computer science theory


	email: eli \| office: BH 3731F \| tel: 310-825-3211 \| fax: 310-825-7578

	Mario Gerla, Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (1973) UCLA
	Research: performance evaluation; design and control of distributed computer communication systems; high-speed computer networks (B-ISDN and optical)

	email: gerla \| office: BH 3732F \| tel: 310-825-4367 \| fax: 310-825-7578

	Sheila Greibach, Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (1963) Harvard University
	Research: algorithms and computational complexity; program schemes and semantics; formal languages and automata theory and computability

	email: greibach \| office: BH 3731D \| tel: 310-825-1617 \| fax: 310-825-7578

	Alan Kay, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (1969) University of Utah
	ACM Fellow, ACM A.M. Turing Award, Kyoto Prize; AAAS Fellow, NAE Fellow, RSA Fellow
	Research: object-oriented programming; personal computing; graphical user interfaces

	email: alan.kay@vpri.org \| office: BH 3732J \| tel: 310-825-9219 \| fax: 310-825-7578

	Leonard Kleinrock, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (1963) MIT
	AAAS, NAE Member, IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow; National Medal of Science, L.M. Ericsson Prize, NAE Charles Stark Draper Prize
	Research: queueing theory; packet switching networks; packet radio networks; local area networks; broadband networks; nomadic computing; peer-to-peer networks; intelligent agents
	email: lk \| office: BH 3732G \| tel: 310-825-2543 \| fax: 310-825-7578

	Allen Klinger, Emeritus Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (1966) University of California, Berkeley
	IEEE Fellow
	Research: image analysis; pattern analysis; database systems; computer education

	email: klinger \| office: BH 4532K \| tel: 310-825-7695 \| fax: 310-794-5057

	Boris Kogan, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (1945) Moscow Institute of Automation and Telemechanics
	Research: simulation of dynamic phenomena in excitable biological tissues; massively parallel multiprocessor systems


	email: kogan \| office: BH 4731E \| tel: 310-825-7393 \| fax: 310-825-2273

	Eddie Kohler, Associate Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (2001) MIT
	Research: operating systems; software architecture; network measurement; network protocol design; programming language techniques for improving systems software

	email: kohler \| office: BH 4531C \| tel: 310-267-5450 \| fax: 310-794-5057

	Richard Korf, Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (1983) Carnegie-Mellon University
	AAAI Fellow
	Research: artificial intelligence, including problem-solving, heuristic search, planning and parallel processing

	email: korf \| office: BH 4532E \| tel: 310-206-5383 \| fax: 310-794-5057

	Leon Levine, Emeritus Senior Lecturer of Computer Science
	MS (1949) MIT
	Research: computer methodology


	email: levine \| office: BH 4531A \| tel: 310-206-7073 \| fax: 310-794-5057

	Songwu Lu, Associate Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (2000) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
	Research: wireless networking; mobile computing; network security; sensor networks; network middleware


	email: slu \| office: BH 4731C \| tel: 310-794-9289 \| fax: 310-825-2273

	Rupak Majumdar, Associate Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (2003) University of California, Berkeley
	Research: formal verification and control of systems; software verification and programming languages; game theoretic problems in verification; logic and automata theory

	email: rupak \| office: BH 4531E \| tel: 310-825-8127 \| fax: 310-794-5057

	Michel A. Melkanoff, Emeritus Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (1955) UCLA
	Research: programming languages; data structures; database design; relational models; simulation systems; robotics; computer-aided design and manufacturing; numerical-controlled machinery

	email: melkanoff \| office: BH 3531E \| tel: 310-794-0009 \| fax: 310-794-5056

	Adam W. Meyerson, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (2002) Stanford University
	Research: approximation algorithms; randomized algorithms; online algorithms; theoretical problems in networks and databases

	email: awm \| office: BH 3731J \| tel: 310-825-0688 \| fax: 310-825-7578

	Todd Millstein, Associate Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (2003) University of Washington
	Research: programming language design; static type systems; program analysis; software model checking; formal methods; compilers

	email: todd \| office: BH 4531D \| tel: 310-825-5942 \| fax: 310-794-5057

	Richard R. Muntz, Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (1969) Princeton University
	ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow
	Research: distributed and parallel database systems; temporal data models and query processing; knowledge discovery in database systems; computer performance evaluation
	email: muntz \| office: BH 3277 \| tel: 310-825-3546 \| fax: 310-794-5056

	Carey Nachenberg, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science
	MS (1995) UCLA
	Research: Anti-virus and intrusion detection technology


	email: kip \| office: BH 4531N \| tel: 424- 750-7519

	Stanley Osher, Professor of Mathematics, Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (1966) New York University
	NAS Member; SIAM Kleinman Prize, ICIAM Pioneer Prize
	Research: applied mathematics; numerical methods for PDEs; level set methods; applications to image processing

	email: sjo@math.ucla.edu \| office: MS 7619F \| tel: 310-825-1758 \| fax: 310-206-6673

	Rafail Ostrovsky, Professor of Computer Science, Professor of Mathematics
	PhD (1992) MIT
	Research: theory of computation; cryptography and security; distributed algorithms; high-dimensional search; routing and flow control in communication networks

	email: rafail \| office: BH 3732D \| tel: 310-206-5283 \| fax: 310-825-7578

	Jens Palsberg, Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (1992) University of Aarhus
	Research: compilers; embedded systems; programming languages; software engineering; information security


	email: palsberg \| office: BH 4531K \| tel: 310-825-6320 \| fax: 310-794-5057

	Peter S. Pao, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (1975) University of Michigan
	Research: System engineering


	email: peterspao@ucla.edu \| office: 38-137H

	D. Stott Parker, Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (1978) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
	Research: Data Mining; Bioinformatics; Database Management and Scientific Data Management; Modeling


	email: stott \| office: BH 3532H \| tel: 310-825-6871 \| fax: 310-794-5056

	Judea Pearl, Emeritus on recall Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (1965) Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn
	NAE Member, AAAI, IEEE Fellow; AI Research Excellence Award, Allen Newell Award
	Research: artificial intelligence and knowledge representation; probabilistic and causal reasoning; nonstandard logics; learning strategies
	email: judea \| office: BH 4515 \| tel: 310-825-3243 \| fax: 310-794-5057

	Miodrag Potkonjak, Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (1991) University of California, Berkeley
	Research: complex distributed systems; embedded systems; communication designs; computer-aided design; ad hoc sensor networks; computational security; electronic commerce; IP protection

	email: miodrag \| office: BH 3532G \| tel: 310-825-0790 \| fax: 310-794-5056

	Peter Reiher, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (1987) UCLA
	Research: file systems; network and computer security; distributed operating systems; ubiquitous computing; optimistic methods in computing; parallel discrete event simulation

	email: reiher \| office: BH 3564 \| tel: 310-825-8332 \| fax: 310-794-5056

	Glenn Reinman, Associate Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (2001) University of California, San Diego
	Research: processor architecture design and optimization; speculative execution; profile-guided optimization; finding and exploiting instruction-level parallelism

	email: reinman \| office: BH 4731 \| tel: 310-794-9755 \| fax: 310-825-2273

	David A. Rennels, Associate Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (1973) UCLA
	Research: computer systems architecture; fault-tolerant computing; modular architectures for VLSI implementation


	email: rennels \| office: BH 4731G \| tel: 310-825-1484 \| fax: 310-825-2273

	Amit Sahai, Associate Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (2000) MIT
	Sloan Research Fellow
	Research: theoretical computer science; foundations of cryptography; computer security

	email: sahai \| office: BH 3731E \| tel: 310-267-4982 \| fax: 310-825-7578

	M.Y. "Medy" Sanadidi, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (1982) UCLA
	Research: congestion control and adaptive multimedia streaming in heterogeneous networks; analytic modeling of computer and communications systems

	email: medy \| office: BH 3531F \| tel: 310-206-0767 \| fax: 310-794-5056

	Majid Sarrafzadeh, Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (1987) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
	IEEE Fellow
	Research: embedded and reconfigurable computing; VLSI CAD; design and analysis of algorithms

	email: majid \| office: BH 3532C \| tel: 310-794-4303 \| fax: 310-794-5056

	David Smallberg, Lecturer of Computer Science
	MS (1978) UCLA
	Research: computer science education; programming languages; generic programming; student software analysis


	email: das \| office: BH 4532G \| tel: 310-267-4665 \| fax: 310-794-5057

	Stefano Soatto, Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (1996) California Institute of Technology
	David Marr Prize
	Research: computer vision; nonlinear estimation; control theory

	email: soatto \| office: BH 3531D \| tel: 310-825-4840 \| fax: 310-794-5056

	Mani Srivastava, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (1992) University of California, Berkeley
	IEEE Fellow
	Research: wireless networked and embedded systems; DSP VLSI

	email: mbs@ucla.edu \| office: BH 6731H \| tel: 310-267-2098

	Yuval Tamir, Associate Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (1985) University of California, Berkeley
	Research: parallel and distributed systems; fault-tolerant computing; multicore architectures; virtualization; cluster computing (OS, middleware); interconnection networks and switches; reliable network services

	email: tamir \| office: BH 4531J \| tel: 310-206-2852 \| fax: 310-794-5057

	Demetri Terzopoulos, Chancellor's Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (1984) MIT
	FRSC, ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, Guggenheim Fellow, European Academy of Sciences Member; Academy Award, IEEE Computer Vision Significant Researcher Award
	Research: computer graphics, computer vision, medical image analysis, computer-aided design, artifical life/intelligence
	email: dt \| office: BH 4531G \| tel: 310-206-6946 \| fax: 310-794-5057

	Zhuowen Tu, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (2002) Ohio State University
	David Marr Prize
	Research: medical imaging; machine learning; statistical modeling and computing; computer vision

	email: ztu@loni.ucla.edu \| office: 225K, 635 Charles E. Young Drive \| tel: 310-267-5121

	Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (2009) University of Pennsylvania
	Research: machine learning, computational economics, social network, theory, and algorithms


	email : jenn \| office : BH 4732 \| tel : 310-825-3886 \| 310-825-2273

	Jacques Vidal, Emeritus Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (1961) University of Paris
	Research: neuromimetic information processing; pattern recognition; neural networks, fuzzy systems and genetic search; multimedia communication for engineering and science education

	email: vidal \| office: BH 4532H \| tel: 310-825-2858 \| fax: 310-794-5057

	Alan Yuille, Professor of Statistics, Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (1981) University of Cambridge
	IEEE Fellow; David Marr Prize
	Research: computer vision; statistical modeling and computing; machine learning

	email: yuille@stat.ucla.edu \| office: MS 8967 \| tel: 310-267-5383 \| fax: 310-206-5668

	Carlo Zaniolo, N.E. Friedmann Chair in Knowledge Science, Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (1976) UCLA
	Research: knowledge-based systems; database systems; non-monotonic reasoning; spatio/temporal reasoning; scientific databases

	email: zaniolo \| office: BH 3532D \| tel: 310-825-8137 \| fax: 310-794-5056

	Lixia Zhang, Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (1989) MIT
	ACM Fellow; IEEE Fellow
	Research: Internet architecture and protocol designs; security in large scale and open systems

	email: lixia \| office: BH 3713 \| tel: 310-825-2695 \| fax: 310-825-7578

	Song Chun Zhu, Professor of Statistics, Professor of Computer Science
	PhD (1996) Harvard University
	David Marr Prize
	Research: computer vision; statistical modeling and computing; vision and visual arts; machine learning

	email: sczhu \| office: BH 9494 \| tel: 310-206-8693 \| fax: 310-206-8693